ThreatXIntel
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threatxintel.com
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Company Description
ThreatXIntel is a growing Cybersecurity, IT Staffing, and Consulting company delivering end-to-end technology and security solutions. Our services include cloud security, web and mobile application security testing, DevSecOps, vulnerability assessments, IT consulting, and professional staffing services.
We support global corporate clients by hiring and deploying skilled professionals across IT and cybersecurity domains while helping organizations strengthen security, optimize operations, and scale efficiently. ThreatXIntel is committed to enabling business growth through secure, reliable, and high-quality technology solutions.
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled Freelance Senior Engineer with deep expertise in search technologies and distributed systems to support a critical search platform redesign initiative.
If you have hands-on experience handling large-scale search systems (1B+ documents) and enjoy solving performance challenges, this role is for you!
Key Responsibilities
- Redesign and optimize document search indexing to improve search latency and performance
- Work on large-scale search systems (1B+ documents)
- Tune and optimize search queries, indexing pipelines, and cluster performance
- Implement and manage sharding, replication, and distributed coordination
- Analyze system bottlenecks and drive performance improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Solr or OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- Deep understanding of Lucene internals
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
- Expertise in:
- Sharding & replication strategies
- Index design & optimization
- Query performance tuning
- Proficiency in Java
- Proven experience improving search latency and system scalability
Tech Stack
- Java
- Apache Solr
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- Lucene
Good to Have
- Experience migrating from Solr → OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- Knowledge of cluster tuning and monitoring tools
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure)
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